Cliseida Rodriguez, volunteer community health worker/promotora Our people needed to know how to defend themselves. ... That’s why I got involved. So we could support each other and find strength with each other through this. Quote icon On a balmy mid-October afternoon, she stood underneath a carport surrounded by 99 boxes of frozen chicken, plums, apples and packaged foods. Thirty-three boxes were headed to families in Carthage, 33 to Forest and 33 would be distributed right there in Morton, according to the meticulous list her friend and colleague Ernestina Perez, 52, kept track of in a spiral-bound notebook. Under every town's name is a list of families awaiting food and supplies.